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Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau will issue an exquisite “Annual Album 2022” on 5^th January 2023. The Album is made with a protective cover and the design adopts the green colour symbolizing hope and peace. The colourful butterflies that have successfully emerged from their cocoons are flying all over the sky, leading the brave and lovely little tiger and child on their stamp exploration journey.
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Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau will release the “Supplements for Philatelic Album of Macao 2022” on 10^th January 2023, and they will be available for sale at the Philatelic Shop of General Post Office and the Communications Museum. The album pages are pre-printed with all the stamps’ images of 2022. Your collections of stamps and souvenir sheets of 2022 can be put into the pre-printed pages for convenient collection.
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Dear citizens and friends,
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that licensed motor vehicles in Macao totalled 248,845 as at end-November 2022, up by 0.7% year-on-year; light automobiles (113,940) and heavy motorcycles (107,792) rose by 0.8% and 2.1% respectively. New registration of motor vehicles in November dropped by 5.9% year-on-year to 1,102 (including 245 electric vehicles), with that of light automobiles falling by 14.9% to 423 (142 of them were electric). From January to November 2022, new registration of motor vehicles went down by 17.5% year-on-year to 9,378. Number of traffic accidents in November decreased by 5.6% year-on-year to 1,014, with 2 persons killed and 381 persons injured. In the first eleven months of 2022, there were 10,301 traffic accidents, which resulted in 7 deaths and 3,672 injuries.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that total merchandise export amounted to MOP1.40 billion in November 2022, up by 18.1% year-on-year. Value of re-exports (MOP1.20 billion) expanded by 20.0%, of which re-exports of Non-diamond jewellery and Machines, apparatus & parts jumped by 374.7% and 172.2% respectively, while those of Articles for casino and Watches declined by 77.5% and 30.5% respectively. Value of domestic exports (MOP205 million) rose by 7.8%, of which domestic exports of Pharmaceutical products & organic chemicals grew by 31.8% while those of Garments decreased by 29.9%. Meanwhile, total merchandise import went down by 16.7% year-on-year to MOP12.98 billion; imports of Perfumes, Beauty, cosmetic & skincare products and Mobile phones dropped by 56.8%, 55.8% and 34.6% respectively, whereas imports of Gold jewellery and Food & beverages rose by 25.0% and 16.3% respectively. Merchandise trade deficit in November 2022 totalled MOP11.57 billion.
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The 18th China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair (ICIF) is held from 28 December 2022 to 2 January 2023. The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym) of the Macao SAR Government, in cooperation with the Cultural Development Fund, has arranged for Macao’s cultural and creative entities to partake in the ICIF through the establishment of the “Macao Creative Pavilion” in an endeavour to lead the cultural and creative industries in Macao to identify business opportunities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and promote exchange and development of these industries.
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The 32^nd issue of Books and the City, published by the Macao Public Library under the Cultural Affairs Bureau, is now available to the public. Themed “About Parent-Child Reading”, this issue of Books and the City introduces a series of parent-child reading promotion activities recently held by the Macao Public Library and related collections, and shares with parents how to create more opportunities to read with children through different activities during their development, from infants and toddlers, students in elementary schools who can read independently, to the teenagers who reach teen rebellion.
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